I had some fun with Scott Klein in-studio recently, filming an episode of Data Exposed. In this segment, we talked about graph databases, and walked through some demos with Neo4j. Check out the video here!

Last year, my coworker Ricardo Villalobos and I visited several cities worldwide, delivering an all-day Windows Azure Open Platform Summit. This one-day event covered compute+networking, data, and the developer story from an open source perspective. This included several languages (.net, python, php, and node.js) as well as several NoSQL databases (Azure Table Storage, MongoDB, Cassandra, and Neo4j). A few months later, we decided to record a 6-part video series covering the highlights of these topics.

A few weeks ago, I received my brand-spanking-new Microsoft Surface with Windows RT. I’ve been really enjoying it, especially on my trip to Redmond last week, which was the first trip where I left my workhorse laptop home and went solo with the Surface. I’ve had a few interesting conversations regarding this slick little device, with the most unexpected happening at Dulles Airport last week when the TSA agent, looking at the scanner screen, said “Hey, is that a new Surface?